Saturday, 26 May 2012

Has Gaikai Partnered with Sony on Cloud Gaming or is it a PR Stunt?

French Gameblog.fr posted this, "Gaikai has major announcements in store for E3, which have the potential to change the future of video games, game consoles and how we play." They have been invited to a presentation of Gaikai at E3, where this potential future of video games, game consoles and how we play will be unveiled.

On the VG247 rumor, Gaikai's response was this, "There
are always rumors about companies, and cloud companies, teaming up with console
makers. Sorry we can't be of more help. If you hear of anything more, could you
let us know?" This response could mean that Gaikai doesn't know
anything about such a deal and it's indeed OnLive that will partner
with Sony. But, of course it could also be a
diversion tactic, a very simple one.

Of course this invitation by Gaikai and the 'coincidental' leak of it could also be a diversion, and their announcements at E3 will be of a different nature. With their current problems, does Sony even have the balls to do large scale cloud gaming which ain't come cheap? Of course this could only be a smaller thing for the beginning, like cloud gaming demos from Gaikai, which are Gaikai's current business model. If this is a diversion, this could mean that Sony partnered with OnLive, and even that Gaikai partnered with Microsoft, or vice versa. And what's with Nintendo? Rumors over rumors, and nothing but speculation. We'll know the truth soon enough at E3, or not, which would be depressing for all the E3 expectations.